murali772 - 22 May, 2008 | Bangalore | Infrastructure

With the oil and gas prices having risen to exorbitant levels, and thermal power generation posing serious challenges with regard to issues like carbon emission, technologies which were earlier considered uneconomical, are beginning to be re-visited. One such possibilty is discussed here. India is perhaps better placed to take it forward faster.

Photo Gallery: Turning Desert Sun into Electricity

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,31097,00.html

The serious constraint, in states like Karnataka, however is the lack of progress on the reforms in the power sector, with the ESCOMS together owing the Karnataka Power Corpn Ltd (KPCL), the generation company whose only customers are the ESCOMS, close to 11 months of its annual bill value, any given day.

Some states are moving ahead, while we in Karnataka will become more and more dependent on our gen-sets with its fast mounting costs.

Rad more at http://karnataka-power-muddle.blogspot.com/

Muralidhar Rao

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